Rowena, Early County GA (Best Viewed Large)

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Damascus, Early County GA

Lord, what are the sins
I have tried to leave behind me...

What are these on the scale of sin
or failure
that they should follow me through the streets of Columbus
the moon-streaked fields between Benevolence
and Cuthbert where dwarfed cotton sparkles like pearls
on the shoulders of the road? What are these
that they should find me half-lost,
sick and sleepless
behind the wheel of this U-Haul truck parked in a field on
Georgia 45
a few miles north of Damascus,
some makeshift rest stop for eighteen wheelers
where the long white arms of oaks slap across trailers
and headlights glare all night through a wall of pines?

from David Bottoms' "In a U-Haul North of Damascus", New York, William Morrow, 1983.

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